University of California Press, 263 pp., $29.95 . White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out . by Christian Picciolini . ..…

Their descendants, along with those of the subsequent imported Black slaves, many immigrants, and later remnants of Native American population. ..…

Jonathan Simon, a professor of law at University of California, Berkeley, said: 'The most obvious comparison for the emerging attitude toward white-collar criminals is the harsh punishment we give to people involved in the drug trade. ..…

THE IMAGES are indelible: Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead in Wyoming; James Byrd, a black man dragged to his death in Texas by racists who tied him to the back of a truck; Jewish children terrorized by a white supremacist gunman in..…

University of California . Berkeley, California . To the Editors: . Mark Lilla reminds us that Tea Party members are “overwhelmingly white, older, educated, and with higher-than-average incomes.” ..…